Piteå Municipality

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Localities

Sister cities

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  Grindavík
  Grindavík
  
  Grindav?k is a fishing town at the peninsula of Reykjanes at the south-western coast of Iceland. It is one of the few cities with a harbour at this coast....
  , Iceland
  Iceland
  
  Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
  
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  Kandalaksha
  Kandalaksha
  
  Kandalaksha is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is located at the head of Kandalaksha Gulf on the White Sea, beyond the Arctic circle. Geographical coordinates: ....
  , Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  
• Saint Barthélemy (an overseas collectivity of France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
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Notable natives

• Lina Andersson
  Lina Andersson
  
  Lina Andersson is a Sweden cross country skier who has competed since 1998. She won a gold medal in the Team sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and also finished 11th in the Individual sprint in those same games....
  , cross-country skier
  Cross-country skiing
  
  Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles. It is popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada, Alaska and the Upper Midwest....
  
• Nicolai Dunger
  Nicolai Dunger
  
  Nicolai Dunger is a singer and acoustic songwriter from Pite? in Sweden. He has released twelve EPs and albums, singing primarily in English, and collaborated notably with Will Oldham, the Esbj?rn Svensson jazz trio and Ebbot Lundberg....
  , artist
  Artist
  
  The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
  
• Nils Edén
  Nils Edén
  
  Nils Ed?n was a Swedish people historian and liberal politician, Prime Minister of Sweden 1917–1920.Ed?n was born in Pite?, in Norrbotten, son of a school principal, and graduated from secondary school in Lule? before matriculating at Uppsala University in 1889....
  , politician
  Politician
  
  A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
  
• Tomas Holmström
  Tomas Holmström
  
  Tomas Holmstr?m is a Swedish people professional ice hockey Winger with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League, where he has won four Stanley Cup championships....
  , ice hockey player
  Ice hockey
  
  Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
  
• Niklas Jonsson
  Niklas Jonsson
  
  Niklas Jonsson is a Sweden cross-country skiing who competed from 1990 to 2002. He won the silver medal in the 50 km at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano....
  , cross-country skier
• Liza Marklund
  Liza Marklund
  
  Eva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a Sweden journalist and crime writer.Most of her books feature newspaper journalist Annika Bengtzon. Some readers consider her style of language to be influenced by her career writing for evening tabloids....
  , author
  Author
  
  An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
  
• Stefan Persson, ice hockey player
• Mikael Renberg
  Mikael Renberg
  
  Mikael Renberg is a Swedish people professional ice hockey player, currently playing for Skellefte? AIK in Elitserien. He spent twelve seasons in the National Hockey League and eight in the Swedish Elitserien....
  , ice hockey player
• Daniel Solander
  Daniel Solander
  
  Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Sweden botanist.Solander was born in Pite?, Norrland, Sweden and was the son of a Lutheran principal....
  , botanist
  Botany
  
  Botany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the Scientific method of plant life and development....
  
• Mattias Öhlund
  Mattias Öhlund
  
  Mattias ?hlund is a Swedish people professional ice hockey Defenceman with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League .Drafted by the Canucks thirteenth overall in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, ?hlund initially played three seasons in the Sweden Elitserien with Lule? HF, winning the Le Mat Trophy as league champions in 1996....
  , ice hockey player

External link

• - Official site